Does organisational capital influence environmental strategies? Evidence from environmental innovation
研究美国上市公司2002-2018年数据,发现组织资本显著促进环境创新(流程与产品创新),且在高盈利和敏感行业中效果更强,为管理者利用组织资本提升环境创新提供依据。
Abstract As a result of increasing consumer awareness and stakeholder demands about environmental management, firms face stricter challenges surrounding the impact of business operations on the environment. In this regards, environmental innovation is one of the important ways of acting in harmony with the environment. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine the impact of organisational capital on environmental innovation measured as the process innovation and product innovation. Using environmental innovation data from ASSET4 for the US listed firms between 2002 and 2018, our empirical results reveal a significant positive association between organisational capital and both the process innovation and product innovation. Furthermore, the relationship is stronger in high‐profitability and sensitive industries subsamples. These results are robust to additional control variables and endogeneity tests. This study, while endorsing the resource‐based view (RBV), provides important implications for the top management teams that organisational capital could be an important channel through which managers can boost environmental innovation.